THE HECK WITH GENDER AND RACE!!!!

I promised screaming if it ever came down to this. Well, it's come to this. Michelle Malkin reports about an op-ed piece in the Seattle Times which raves:

"Sotomayor's nomination is historic also because she is living successfully with diabetes."

I'm going to show you some really tasty bits from the pile of manure. Let me tell you something else before we begin: as a type 1 diabetic, I. Am. Pissed.

The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has made diabetes a factor in the confirmation process. Diagnosed at age 8, she is the first nominee to have the disease, and the position's life tenure has raised valid questions about her health while also giving her critics an opening.

Except no one gives a rip about her diabetes. Except the idiots who wrote this, and now me because they brought it up. What we give a rip about is the fact this woman has a axe to grind and she's taking it to court with her.

"I believe that that a wise Latina woman, in the riches of her experience, would come to better conclusion then a white man who hasn't lived that life."

If that's not word for word, it's pretty dang close. Any 'white man' who said it would have that would have been run out of town in a hurry. Why is this witch given a free ride because of her skin color?

Type 1 diabetes is a disorder in which the immune system destroys the body's insulin-producing beta cells. (The more common form of diabetes, type 2, is associated with weight gain and aging.) No one is declaring victory over diabetes, which is increasing at epidemic rates and imposes huge burdens on patients, their families and the entire health-care system.

But Judge Sotomayor's nomination should be given its historic due. If a Latina would have never been considered for the highest court 40 years ago or even 20 years ago, neither would have a person with diabetes. Workplace discrimination was common; social stigmas flourished; misperceptions were the norm.

Until insulin's discovery in 1922, there was no effective treatment. Your diagnosis was your death sentence. Insulin, however, allowed patients to live by the grace of this miracle drug — making them, as Dr. Joslin said, "the explorers of uncharted seas." But those waters were hardly calm.

When you're done with your hero worship, I'd like to have a word with you. Tell me, oh wise ones, what exactly constitutes living successfully with diabetes? Good blood sugars, perhaps? Remember, none of us have perfect blood sugars all the time, not even her, I would dare to say. Is it because she has an insulin pump? A fancy blood glucose meter? How is this historic? How is she successful? Pray tell, oh wise ones, so poor stupid diabetics like me may follow in her wise example.

Make no mistake, good diabetes care requires financial resources, a qualified health-care team and personal commitment. Too many patients still fall short of their goal and our health-care system is far from perfect. But our improved tools are paying dividends. In a typical half-day clinic at the University of Washington Diabetes Care Center, nine or 10 patients collectively can boast of more than 300 years of diabetes duration. Patients with what was once called "juvenile diabetes" are now Medicare age.

We won't predict what type of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be, but we do know that her health care will be guided by tools and technology that none of us have yet imagined.

You don't have to predict. Us Conservatives have been doing that for awhile now. She can be summed up in one word: racist.

We started off in this op-ed with awe and wonder that this diabetic had been nominated for the Supreme Court, and now we get a lecture on diabetes.

Either way, I'm still upset. She's incompetent, preferring to judge based on skin color rather than on the merits of an actual case. That will only lead to trouble if this woman is confirmed. Count on it.

And don't you dare try and play on diabetes for sympathy again.

See Also: What Ricci Says About Sotomayor - And Obama

Celebrate

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

Man, it's good to be a right-wing extremist. Because I'm now defined as 'evil' and a 'dissenter' under Obummer's reign (formerly known as 'patriotic' and 'Conservative') I can be just as patriotic as I jolly well feel like being. Speaking of Obama, I wonder what he's going to today that makes it look as though he sort of supports this country, while still managing to undermine it at the same time.

But enough about politics. It's the time of year where we celebrate our freedoms! And I would like to share this video, which I think is a really great patriotic song.

Aaron Tippon - Where the Stars and Stripes & The Eagle Fly



Have a Happy 4th of July!!

Like Democrats?

Hat tip to Lady Cincinnatus for this. Turn your speakers up and enjoy:



I might have to embed this in my sidebar. The movie this is from, BTW, is Ghost Breakers.

I don't know how I managed to miss that line, though. Then again I haven't seen that movie in eons. Oh well.

He's Barack Obama

Here's a fun video about Barack Obama, from JibJab.



~A Few Moments Later~
There's something messed up here. Let's try reposting this again. I don't like how the video is wider than the blog post screen. (The yellow section.)

... Well, I tried. It still goes off the screen. How annoying. Anyway, try and enjoy anyways, and I'm sorry about that.

EDIT 6-23-09

Upon discovery that the video did not work, I went out and found a different copy. Hopefully this one will work. Enjoy!

Pass the Plastic Bags, Please

The spaz-tastic U.N. is back at it again:

Single-use plastic bags, a staple of American life, have got to go, the United Nations' top environmental official said Monday.

And if you look here, you'll see one good reason not to stop using plastic bags: Because the U.N. wants us too.

Although recycling bags is on the rise in the United States, an estimated 90 billion thin bags a year, most used to handle produce and groceries, go unrecycled. They were the second most common form of litter after cigarette butts at the 2008 International Coastal Cleanup Day sponsored by the Ocean Conservancy, a marine environmental group.

"Single use plastic bags which choke marine life, should be banned or phased out rapidly everywhere. There is simply zero justification for manufacturing them anymore, anywhere," said Achim Steiner, executive director of the U.N. Environment Programme. His office advises U.N. member states on environmental policies.

Why are we taking advice from the U.N.? These are the idiots who proclaimed global pandemic and chaos when the swine flu (No, I will not call it H1N1) was in and 150 people outside Mexico were sick.

The ban is already being tested in China, where retailers giving out thin bags can be fined up to $1,464. According to one nationwide survey, 40 billion fewer plastic bags were given out in grocery stores after the law's enactment. In addition, Ireland managed to cut single-use plastic bag consumption 90 percent by levying a fee on each bag that consumers use.

In the United States, only San Francisco has completely banned plastic bags. Los Angeles will do so in 2010. Also, Washington, D.C.'s city council is set to vote on a five-cent-a-bag tax later this month. On first reading, the bill passed unanimously. Similar proposals have failed in New York and Philadelphia.

Keith Christman, senior director for the plastics division of the American Chemistry Council, responded that the term "single-use" is misleading because most people actually reuse plastic bags, "for example, to line their trash cans."

I'm very glad to see that the ban failed outside the liberal state. And yes, I do reuse plastic bags. You know those little trash cans most people have in their bathrooms? Those plastic grocery bags work very well as liners for them.

"A ban on plastic bags could also cause some unintended consequences," he said. In particular, the increased demand for paper bags would double greenhouse emissions and create "a dramatic increase in waste," Christman said.

I love how, if given enough space, environmentalism will strangle itself out.

Leading U.S. plastic bag manufacturers aim to increase the recycled content of plastic bags to 40 percent by 2015, he added. That would reduce plastic waste by 300 million pounds a year.

Taking care of the planet is not a bad thing, but environmentalism is, as it puts the planet before people on the planet.

Not to mention that the U.n. can't do anything right to save anyone's life. Now we can see the new load of crap these people expect us to stomach.

I'll take 100 plastic bags, please.